Big news from space: The European Space Agency's Euclid telescope has released its first huge batch of data, called DR1-Foundation, on November 12, 2026.
This collection covers light from over a billion cosmic objects (imagine the area of 9,500 full moons) and could totally change what we know about dark matter and dark energy.
Enables vast 3-D mapping, 14% complete
Euclid's new data will help scientists build one of the largest-ever 3-D maps of the universe.
We are talking light spectra from 160 million sources, images of nearly a billion galaxies, and thousands of gravitational lensing events, all offering fresh clues about how the universe is built and how it grows.
And here is the wild part: this is just 14% of what Euclid plans to survey, so there is way more to come.